C40 Cities News
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Rio De Janeiro Mayor Paes elected as new C40 Chair
Today the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) announced that Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes has been elected to succeed New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as the new Chair of the C40 Steering Committee. Mayor Bloomberg will stay on as President of the C40 Board. The Steering Committee is made up of Berlin, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Houston, Jakarta, Johannesburg, London, New York ...
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29 finalists identified in 10 categories for the inaugural C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards
Global Prize Competition Highlights Excellence in Urban Sustainability Siemens and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) today announced the 29 finalist cities competing in 10 categories for the initial City Climate Leadership Awards. The winners will be named at the Awards presentation event in London, at the Crystal on September 4, ...
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C40 & Siemens Kick Off 2014 City Climate Leadership Awards
We are pleased to announce that the application process for the 2014 C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards is now open. Last year’s inaugural C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards was a rousing success, recognizing ten global cities for their leadership in urban sustainability. An event held at the Crystal in London drew city leaders and experts from around the world, ...
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Global Partnership Formed to Lower Emissions in Cities Around the World
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) today announced a global partnership to advance investments related to energy conservation and carbon emission reduction in existing buildings in cities around the world. The partnership agreement was signed today at ULI's annual Asia-Pacific Real Estate Summit in Shanghai. In partnership, the organizations will ...
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C40 Announces New Milestones in Leadership and Funding
Today the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) announced several key milestones in both leadership and funding for the organization that will help accelerate the impact cities are having in taking climate actions locally that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally. Effective immediately, Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes begins his 2-year tenure as C40 Chair while former Chair New ...
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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres to Join C40 Mayors Summit
On January 15, 2014 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) announced that Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, will participate in the fifth biennial C40 Mayors Summit, leading a discussion on how the UN can play a greater role in working with megacities to advance their leading efforts on climate ...
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C40 & Siemens inaugural City Climate Leadership Awards honor ten cities for excellence in urban sustainability
Siemens and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) announced the winners of the inaugural City Climate Leadership Awards at a ceremony held this evening at the Crystal in London. The Awards honored ten cities for excellence in urban sustainability and leadership in the fight against climate change. The winning cities and their award categories are: Bogota (Urban Transportation) ...
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C40 Releases Groundbreaking Research on the Importance and Impact of Cities on Climate Change
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) released two landmark reports today that emphasize the critical role of measurement and transparency in tackling climate change in megacities. The reports, released during the C40 Cities Mayors Summit in Sao Paulo (May 31 – June 2), demonstrate the current and potential impact of cities confronting climate change and opportunities to build a low ...
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Johannesburg To Host 2014 C40 Mayors Summit
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) and Johannesburg Mayor Parks Tau announced today that the city of Johannesburg, South Africa has been selected to host the fifth biennial C40 Cities Mayors Summit in February 2014. During the summit, hundreds of urban and climate change leaders from around the world will join mayors from the world's ...
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C40 and ICLEI to Establish Global Standard on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Cities
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, announced today at the C40 Cities Mayors Summit in Sao Paulo that the two organizations will establish a global standard for accounting and reporting community-scale greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that can be used across multiple platforms. This common approach will help local governments to accelerate ...
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Bordo Poniente Landfill Closing Helps
A project to close one of the world's largest landfills, the 927-acre Bordo Poniente Landfill in Mexico City will stem the city's largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while creating renewable energy and local jobs. Developed in close collaboration with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) Cities program and its partner the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), the project ...
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C40 & Siemens Announce Broad Collaboration on Cities and Sustainability
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) and Siemens today announced a new collaboration, both a technical partnership and a global prize competition to recognize city actions and innovation that will accelerate C40 city actions to combat the impacts of global climate change. "Cities around the world — particularly C40 cities — are leading the way in taking meaningful actions to ...
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C40 cities climate leadership group and World Resources Institute partner to promote city transit solutions
The World Resources Institute, led by its sustainable transport center, EMBARQ, and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) established a partnership today that will further their mutual goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from urban transportation. The partnership focuses on scaling up solutions and enhancing C40 cities transport efforts related to sustainable urban planning, bus ...
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CDP’S Cities Funding Will Broaden Existing Research Partnership with C40
CDP— a leading international NGO — today announced that it is greatly expanding its support for the world’s cities to report on their local greenhouse gas emissions and identify actionable solutions to combat climate change. CDP offers cities, companies and investors the only global environmental disclosure system, and a three-year, $4.1 million grant from Bloomberg ...
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New US Brazil joint initiative tool informs global urban infrastructure investments
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Brazilian Minister for the Environment Izabella Teixeira today announced a new online tool that highlights key links between policies, funding and on-the-ground projects that can help drive urban sustainability investment around the world. The benefits of sustainable urban infrastructure include healthier air and water, ...
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Boost from LWaRB to divert food waste from landfill
The equivalent of 800,000 meals a year will be diverted from landfill sites and distributed to the homeless and other vulnerable people following a grant from the London Waste and Recycling Board to the charity FareShare. The FareShare Community Food Network received £362,000, from LWaRB, to assist it with providing a paid-for food collection service to the food and drink industry to distribute ...
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C40 Promoting Climate Action for Healthier City Living
With urban areas expected to accommodate two thirds of the world's population by 2050, radical action is needed to change the way we run our cities say C40, a network of cities committed to climate action. The new research findings, produced in collaboration with CERC, BuroHappold and LSHTM, show that if C40's 96 member cities take the ambitious actions outlined in the report they could see an ...
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International partners release pilot global protocol for community-scale greenhouse gas emissions
C40, ICLEI, WRI and partners achieve a significant milestone towards establishing a single standard for measuring emissions for cities C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, together with international partners, are launching a pilot version of the Global Protocol for Community-scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions (also called the “community ...
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Wealthier, Healthier Cities Emerge From Climate Change Initiatives Finds New CDP Report
While national governments struggle to establish an agreed global climate deal, many of the world’s largest cities have been taking action to combat the effects of a changing climate. As a result, these cities are cutting their carbon footprint, reporting annual energy savings of up to US$13 million, and their residents are benefitting from healthier living and better business environments. ...
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Wealthier, healthier cities emerge from climate change initiatives finds new CDP Report
While national governments struggle to establish an agreed global climate deal, many of the world’s largest cities have been taking action to combat the effects of a changing climate. As a result, these cities are cutting their carbon footprint, reporting annual energy savings of up to US$13 million, and their residents are benefitting from healthier living and better business environments. ...
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